FOIA

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/12/2022
  

  49 Years Later, Nixon's Knowledge of Pinochet Coup Remains Secret

  It is beyond time for the Biden Administration to declassify presidential records related to American operations in Chile around the overthrow of democratically elected President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.  

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• 9/4/2022
  

  What I Learned About Governments from Researching Classified Documents

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Historians who have conducted research in classified materials understand how seriously governments take secrecy and how secrecy can conceal malfeasance or anti-democratic action. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  3/11/2022
  

  30-Year Flatline in NARA Budget Threatens Research, Transparency

  Chronic underfunding, combined with successive administrations' disdain for transparency, means that Freedom of Information Act requests are likely to languish for years before being fulfilled. It's long overdue to fund the National Archives for the public good. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  1/21/20
  

  National Security Archive Releases USCYBERCOM documents which shed new light on the campaign to counter ISIS in cyberspace

  by Michael Martelle

  New FOIA documents show challenges in operational synchronization, deconfliction, and inter-agency coordination.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  After 3 Year FOIA Lawsuit, Washington Post Publishes Afghanistan Papers, A Secret History of the War

  More than 2,000 pages of interviews and memos reveal a secret history of the war.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  11/5/19
  

  National Security Archive, SHAFR, and CREW Sue Pompeo, State Department over Failure to Create Records

  by Lauren Harper and Tom Blanton

  Evidence from the House’s impeachment inquiry, including from Ambassador William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine under the Trump administration, and from former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, all speak to a pattern and practice of bypassing official record-keeping procedures at the State Department.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/14/19
  

  Redacting Democracy

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  What You Can’t See Can Hurt You

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/19
  

  The government effort to make FOIA “as bad as possible”

  by Nate Jones

  The Department of Justice's historical effort to weaken the Freedom Of Information Act and why Congress must strengthen the law. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  2/28/19
  

  National Security Archive Sues Defense Information Agency for Able Archer 83 Document

  by Nate Jones

  The Archive filed suit after receiving no substantive response to the FOIA request for six months. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  2/22/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Declassified Documents on Dick Cheney

  by Tom Blanton and Nate Jones

  Oscar-worthy Documents on the Dark Side, from Cheyenne to Baghdad

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  7-1-16
  

  The Freedom of Information Act is 50 years old

  Fifty years ago on July 4, 1966, Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Freedom of Information Act while vacationing at his Texas ranch. But he hated the concept.

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• SOURCE: reader supported news
  4-21-16
  

  Historian Nick Turse says the Pentagon has blacklisted him for making multiple FOIA requests

  True, he admits, he did file a lot of requests. But there was a reason.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-27-15
  

  My losing battle to see the official papers of Sen. Joe McCarthy

  by Alexis Coe

  Congress isn’t covered by FOIA. It should be.

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  10-5-15
  

  FOIA Documents Reveal Agent Orange Dioxin, Toxic Dumps, Fish Kills on Okinawa Base

  Two Veterans Win Compensation, Many More Denied

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  7-17-15
  

  Court Rejects Chiquita's Bid to Hide Terror Payment Records

  U.S. Appeals Court Upholds National Security Archive Victory in Fruit Company's "Reverse-FOIA" Action

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  

  CIA employee terminated after using FOIA

  His request set in motion a harrowing sequence.